Senior Application Security Engineer

Job Description

Senior Application Security Engineer – 65k-70k + bens - Nottingham

The client is on a mission to help customers succeed by bringing ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to banking.
Information Security is an integral part of the corporate culture. It is essential to maintaining our position as an industry leader in electronic payments, and it is the responsibility of every employee to safeguard information, protect it from unauthorized access, and ensure regulatory compliance.

The successful candidate will work closely with the UK Application Security group to build and drive the Application Security Engineering function. This function will be responsible for collaborating closely with Software Engineering teams through penetration testing, static analysis, security automation, security training and secure design. This role within Application Security must instill a culture that works toward the highest standards in application security engineering whilst ensuring that business requirements are understood and adhered to, and security risks in new and existing applications are properly understood and mitigated.

This position reports to the UK Head of Application Security and can be based at a location that is appropriate for the right candidate.

Job Scope and Responsibilities:

Provide hands on direction during the design and development of applications to support the business strategy

Partner with stakeholders to embed application security requirements as part of their programs and strategy

Collaborate closely with colleagues within the wider Global Information Security organisation and technology departments as well as the UK business to establish effective, productive relationships

Implement security automation and assist with code reviews and open source software evaluations

Must have a strong knowledge of web and mobile application security testing frameworks and methodologies, and familiarity working across the Global Cyber Security Community